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Housing

Program code
BWT04 (INDSC)
Core responsibility
Community and Regional Development
In Departmental Plans
2018-19 – 2018-19 · Appeared and later dropped

What it does

GC InfoBase has no Program Inventory description for this program.

History and lineage

First appears in GC InfoBase's actual spending by program in 2018-19. The data does not record when a program was created; it may be older than its first appearance here, which is limited by the sources (program spending starts in 2010-11, Departmental Plans in 2018-19).

2018-192019-202020-212021-222022-232023-242024-25Housing 2018-19: $359MHousing 2019-20: $167MHousing 2020-21: $167MHousing 2019-20: $371MHousing 2020-21: $371MHousing 2021-22: $428MHousing 2022-23: $668MHousing 2023-24: $335MHousing 2024-25: $128MHousingHousing
Bars: spending by fiscal year (dark: actual; light: actual restated on the 2017-18 program structure; outlined: the latest plan's forecast; grey: related programs). Bands: each program in the lineage over the years it has data.
ProgramRelationYears with dataActual spending over those years
HousingThis program2018-19 – 2020-21$359M
HousingLater program (name match, high confidence)2019-20 – 2024-25$1.84B

Significant changes in scope and budget

Detected from the data: renames between plans, programs it appears to replace, merge with or split into (matched by name), year-over-year changes in spending of at least 25% and $5M, or in employees of at least 20% and 25 FTEs, linked budget measures, and results indicators added or dropped.

YearWhat changedSource
2019-20Planned employees (FTEs) 3, against 47 in 2018-19 (−94%).FTEs (GC InfoBase)
2019-20Appears to be replaced by HousingCanada Spends name match across plans (an inference)
2019-20Planned spending $167M, against $359M in 2018-19 (−54%).Latest Departmental Plan

Success criteria

The program's indicators from its department's Departmental Results Framework: the target set in each year's plan, and the result reported the following year. Source: GC InfoBase.

Historical: targets against results

Percentage of First Nation housing that is adequate as assessed and reported annually by First Nations
Expected result: Housing infrastructure meets the needs of First Nation communities on-reserve
75%2018-19✓ met

Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.

Report yearTargetDueResultStatus
2018-19≥ 75%201975%
The result is for 2017-18. 2018-19 housing data will be reported by First Nation communities by the end of December 2019 through the Community Infrastructure and Housing Annual Report. 2018-19 results will be available in winter 2020 in GCInfobase.
Met

Current: the 2026-27 plan's targets

No indicators in the 2026-27 plan.

Future goals: targets due after 2026-27

No targets with a later due date.

Spending and employees: planned against actual

Spending

2018-19: $166M2018-19: $359M2018-192019-20: $167M2019-202020-21: $167M2020-21
Outlined bar: planned in that year's Departmental Plan (dashed: the latest plan, for years not yet reported). Filled bar: actual.
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Fiscal yearPlannedActual
2018-19$166M$359M
2019-20$167M*—
2020-21$167M*—

Employees (FTEs)

2018-19: 32018-19: 472018-192019-20: 32019-202020-21: 32020-21
Outlined bar: planned in that year's Departmental Plan (dashed: the latest plan, for years not yet reported). Filled bar: actual.
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Fiscal yearPlannedActual
2018-19347
2019-203*—
2020-213*—

Planned spending, plan by plan

Each row is one year's Departmental Plan and its forecast for the next three fiscal years; read a column down to see how the forecast for one year changed. The last row is what was actually spent. Click an amount for its source. Biggest changes in federal spending plans

Plan2018-192019-202020-21
2018-19 plan$166,471,735$166,585,304$166,585,304
Actual$359,204,116

Actual spending is from Departmental Results Reports and the Public Accounts, as published in GC InfoBase. FTEs are full-time equivalents.